Dr Danièle Hromek’s research considers Indigeneity in the built environment. It contributes an understanding of the Indigenous experience and comprehension of space, and investigates how Aboriginal people occupy, use, narrate, sense, dream and contest their spaces. Her research rethinks the values that inform Aboriginal understandings of space through Indigenous spatial knowledge and cultural practice, in doing so considers the sustainability of Indigenous cultures from a spatial perspective.
RESEARCH PROJECTS (SELECTED)
Aboriginal Cultural Values: An Approach for Engaging with Country, Marine Estate Management Authority, Department of Planning, Industry and Environment [link]
Connecting with Country, Designing with Country and The Sydney Ochre Grid, Government Architect NSW [link]
Back to Country: A Guided Reflection on Sovereignty, audio landscape experience [link]
Cultural Mapping of Southern Industrial Area of Sydney, City of Sydney Council
The (Re)Indigenisation of Space: Weaving narratives of resistance to embed Nura [Country] in design, Ph.D Research, UTS [link]
PUBLICATIONS (SELECTED)
‘Indigenizing practice: What can non-Indigenous designers do?’ Guest editor for Architecture Australia Dossier, July 2023 [web link]
‘Moving towards Placekeeping in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand’ in Urban Design, Summer 2023, Issue 167
‘What is cultural safety and how do we design for it?’ in Architecture Australia, 23 Jan 2023 [web link]
‘Listen, observe, learn: Ethics and protocols on Country’ in Architecture Australia, 12 Dec 2022 [web link]
‘Country, community and Indigenous research: a research framework that uses Indigenous research methodologies (storytelling, deep listening and yarning)’ in Australian Aboriginal Studies, with Francis Bobongie-Harris and Grace O’Brien, 2021, no. 2
‘Black Hearts of Time and Space’ in Architecture Bulletin, Vol.79 No. 1 July 2022 [web link]
‘Nura Yaman (‘Country Speaks’): Language, people and place in serious games’ article in Language Games, with Andrew Burrell and Rachel Hendery, 15 May 2021 [web link]
‘Up Here from High is Nura [Country]’ article in Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture issue 56, Autumn 2021 [web link]
‘A Yarn Between Two Spatial Practitioners’ article in Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture issue 56, with Louise Wright, Autumn 2021 [web link]
‘Our Voices. Our Ways. Our Time. Our Spaces.’article in Architecture Bulletin vol 78 No 2 Community, with Samantha Rich, December 2021 [web link]
‘Storytelling and Narratives on Country: A Yuin Woman’s Perspective’ chapter in book Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Yurlendj-nganjin, 2021 [web link]
‘Reading Country: Seeing Deep into the Bush’, articlein Architecture Australia, vol.110 no.2, 2021 [download][web link]
‘Contested Ground: Weaving Stories of Spatial Resilience, Resistance, Relationality and Reclamation’, chapter in book Our Voices II: The Decolonial Project, 2021 [web link]
‘Designing with Country: Rethreading Aboriginal Culture into the Design Fabric of Sydney’s Built and Natural Environment through Language, Place and Memory’, chapter in book Our Voices II: The Decolonial Project, with Dillon Kombumerri, 2021 [web link]
‘Covered By Concrete: Uncovering latent Aboriginal narratives concealed in urban contexts’, chapter in book Our Voices II: The Decolonial Project, with Siân Hromek and Michael Hromek, 2021 [web link]
‘A cultural generational communal iterative generative collaborative relational theory of design’ with Jacqueline Gothe, mini-chapter in book Theories of Design[ing], 2021 [web link]
‘Void. Terra Nullius. Country’, catalogue essay, 2020 [download]
‘Nura, Fire Law and First Peoples: Why all now-Australians must listen to those who were there first’, gal-dem, 2020 [web link]
Language and Terminology for Referencing Aboriginal Culture and Heritage in the Design of the Built Environment, 2019 [web link]
‘Country: Sustaining and Maintaining, Sentient and Alive’, excerpt from PhD published by Belvoir Street Theatre, 2019 [download]
‘Sensing Materials of our Country’ with Siân Hromek and Michael Hromek, article, Architecture Bulletin, vol.75 no.2, 2018 [download]
‘Always Is: Aboriginal spatial experiences of land and Country’, chapter in Our Voices: Indigeneity and Architecture, 2018 [web link]
‘Weaving Intentions’, non-traditional research output, 2018 [download]
‘Impact’, catalogue essay, 2017 [download]
Cultural Principles and Protocols for Designers for projects or curricula working with Indigenous peoples, materials or communities , co-authored with Terri Janke, 2017 [web link]
‘Indigenous Materials Referencing Guide’ with Sophie Herbert, referencing guide, 2017 [web link][download]
‘Winyanboga Yurringa’, non-traditional research output, 2016 [download]
‘Covered by Concrete’ with Siân Hromek and Michael Hromek, non-traditional research output, 2015 [download]
SPEAKING, WORKSHOPS (SELECTED)
Deadly Djurumin Yarns, co-convened with Sarah Lynn Rees, Parlour [link]
Living with Country, with Jonathan Green on Blueprint, Radio National, ABC Radio [link]
Not an Expert, 2021, Parlour Live! webinar [link]
Sustainable Cities and Landscapes Conference, 2020, Association of Pacific Rim Universities, Virtual conference
Regional Architecture Conference, 2019, Australian Institute of Architects, Byron Bay
Valuing Our World Views, 2019, Community Research webinar [link]
Planning Connects – Designing with Country, 2019, DPIE training & education webinar [link]
Indigenous Design Symposium, 2019, Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences
BLAKitecture Women’s Business Yarning Circle, 2018, MPavilion Melbourne
Place, 2018, Perspectives [link]
Relationality and Design: Reclaiming Design Practice and Protocols and Subverting the Design Method, 2018, UTS
Cultural Training for Visual Communications team, School of Design, 2018, UTS
Cultural Immersion for The Australian Ballet, 2017, Old Ways New
Incorporating Indigenous ecological, design and Country knowledge into the built environment, 2017, Yurlendj-nganjin (‘everyone’s knowledge’/’our intelligence’), Deakin University
Indigenous portfolio discussion circle, 2017, Association of Architecture Schools of Australasia AGM, University of Sydney
Always Was: Aboriginal spatial experiences of land and Country, 2017, World Indigenous Peoples Conference on Education
Weaving Design into the Intersectionality of Design, 2017, World Indigenous Peoples Conference on Education
First Peoples, Object and Country, 2017, University of Technology Sydney
Love, Stories, Kin and Country, 2016, University of Technology Sydney
Aboriginal Design/Spatial Considerations, 2016, barrangal dyara (skin and bones), Kaldor Public Art Projects [link]
Indigenous Space, Place and Country, 2016, University of New South Wales and University of Technology Sydney
The Art of Storytelling, 2015, UTS Art Gallery